Cartoonist won two Pulitzers for his depictions during and after World War II

1:26 AM,
Oct. 29, 2013

'Up Front' cartoon featuring Willie and Joe.

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"I was born a troublemaker," Bill Mauldin wrote in his autobiography, "and might as well earn a living at it."

The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist's trouble-making was the honest rendition of the world in which he lived, especially during World War II, when his cartoons, published in Stars and Stripes and picked up by 100 newspapers in the states, captured the hearts of soldiers and their families.

William Henry Mauldin was born Oct. 29, 1921, in Mountain Park, N.M., and grew up in Phoenix. He attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts with the hope of becoming a cartoonist but could ...